Dear Editor,
Clint Eastwood directed the movie “Sully”, starring Tom Hanks, and it was released by Warner Bros. on 9th September, 2016. The movie retold the story about US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 taking off from NY City’s La Guardia Airport and flying to Seattle on 15th January, 2009. At 2818 feet in the air, travelling at 213mph, at 15:26h (3:26 PM), exactly five minutes after taking off, it struck a flock of geese off Midtown Manhattan.
Passengers heard a loud bang, saw flames from the engines, followed by silence and an odour of fuel. The plane lost all engine power, but the skilful pilot, Mr. Chesley Sullenberger, was able to glide the plane, ditching it on the Hudson Bay River off Midtown Manhattan. All one hundred and fifty passengers, three flight attendants, the co-pilot and the pilot were saved, after being rescued by various vessels, divers and helicopters. It took twenty-nine minutes, an air temperature of 19 degrees F (-7C) and water temperature of 41 degrees F (5C), to complete the successful operation.
In Guyana, on March 2nd, 2020, a nation of passengers voted, and after passing through all the ticketing counters and security points at Ashmin’s Building, GECOM HQ and the ACCC, they boarded the flight at GECOM’s office. The flight had to be cleared for all customs, immigration, and security reasons by the local and international observers, including all stakeholders, electoral workers, military officials, the media and the press.
After some minor and major hiccups (there was disagreement when fake documents were presented, the amount of people on board couldn’t be verified, and there was need for a recount ofr all the seated passengers), members of the CARICOM, OAS, EU, the ABCE diplomats (the Carter Center Team had to be barred because of COVID-19) and all the grounds-men, they had to give their blessings for a safe flight before it departed.
The PPP/C was approved as the licensed pilot for the flight (after writing an exam and scoring higher marks than APNU/AFC).
The flight was only minutes in the air when disaster struck. Unknowingly to all, the APNU/AFC had infiltrated the Flight Tower, having placed their own members inside, they redirected the plane on a flight course with illogical configurations that saw the plane crash-landing in the Demerara River, barely clearing the Demerara Bridge.
As I write, the plane is still in the water with the passengers stranded inside, uncertain if to go onto the wings of the plane or jump into the water. All rescue parties were informed, but they are awaiting approval from the foreign officials to see if they are allowed to go forward with the rescue operation, or allow the passengers and plane to die from drowning!
The traumatic saga continues to play out involving the drowning people of Guyana and a Charge d’Affaires officer who can throw life boats to save the nation and the people from sinking to the bottom of the river, but he is nowhere on the scene, and is allowing a terrible destruction and disaster to worsen. Standing by is the rescue team headed by the GECOM Chair, who can unleash so much power and still complete a successful operation without the help of the sleeping giant. She can also exercise her powers by instituting all correct procedures and ensuring all her assistants comply with her direct instructions and guidance, or face the wrath of the established law by pulling the plug on them, starting with the chief conspirator. Her CEO was found guilty on four separate occasions for conspiracy, collusion, misconduct, fraud, inciting the public with incorrect results, and deliberately misguiding the Commission and the Chair with his mangled and insane mathematical mumbo-jumbo.
In principle, these offences are simply electoral fraud, but all are assured that the learned Madam Chair is intellectually acquainted with all aspects of the law and she can easily see through any maze or trap fabricated by the inferior literates trying to pull the wool over her eyes. All the effects and causes and the remedies are glaringly displayed at her disposal. She only has to click her fingers and law and order will take its due course again. Give a person a long rope and that person will hang himself or herself.
Is it surprising that students in Guyana are performing poorly at Math and English when they have insensible examples to follow and accept, the likes of dishonest leaders in the Government and Judiciary, who refuse to ascertain the difference between right and wrong, and insist in misdirecting others with their murky interpretations that are directed for personal gains only? No wonder transparency is no longer lucid, and the confused students are in a mess, not certain if to follow the mathematical brains of Williams, Mingo or Lowenfield, and if to succumb to the art of language as propagated by the ambiguity of a few of the legal professionals! Look out for a drop in History passes because many will be instructed to rewrite the history of this country according to their own analogies and recollection.
The country awaits July 1st for the sitting of the CCJ, when the appeal by the PPP/C over the ruling of the elections’ credibility case will commence. In the interim, CCJ has issued an order preventing GECOM and its officers from taking any further actions until the hearing and determination of the matter.
Meanwhile, those passengers in the plane, viz the people of this nation, remain stranded and without help, every ticking second can bring immediate disaster. There is gross uncertainty in the lives of the terrified, and the guardian angel remains aloof, smirking, laughing and singing and dancing to the tune of “Good for you” and “I don’t care.”
How callous and ruthless can a leader become? But it did not happen overnight, it was premeditated and meticulously calculated, with all the right strings attached to pull the trigger at the right moment. After all, he is an army man well trained in offensive and defensive attacks and the use of all weapons. Do not mistake that quiet look, for it is the easy snake that bites hot.
Yes, we are all in this together, and the water has reached our necks. Imagine, you have to lift the babies above your heads, precariously holding them in your hands and the life boat is inches away but is refusing to help. Such is the foe for an ally, one with closed eyes and ears, with hard mind and a stone for a heart! Save yourself Guyana.
Respectfully,
Jai Lall
